Official Publication of the National Collegiate Athletic Association November 21,1988, Volume 25 Number 41 Basketball automatic-qualification changes approved The NCAA Administrative Corn- Dempsey, chair of the Division 1 must be composed entirely of members have been members of automatic qualification for eight mittee has approved amendments Men’s Basketball Committee, said. member institutions that have been Division 1 for eight years. years in those cases. to Executive Regulation l-6 regard- “The committee met with commis- members of Division 1 for the preccd- The waiting period is eight years The Administrative Committee ing automatic qualification to the sioners and received feedback from ing eight academic years. The re- for conferences that are new Associ- amended that recommendation so Division I Men’s Basketball Cham- coaches and administrators and felt quirement previously was five years. ation members have been members that the conference retains its auto- pionship. that its actions best represented the If a conference falls below the six- of Division I for less than eight matic qualification, but the new The changes, which were recom- membership’s feelings.” member continuity of membership years. member cannot represent the con mended by the Division I Men’s Effective January I, 1989, a con- and adds an institution that has The Administrative Committee ference as the automatic qualifier Basketball Committee, relate to the ference must be a member of the been a member of Division I for amended the basketball committee’s until that institution has been a number of years a conference must Association for the five preceding eight years, it shall forfeit automatic proposal relating to conferences member of Division I for eight be a member of the Association and academic years (rather than three qualification and must wait five that have fulfilled the six-member years. the number of years conference consecutive academic years) to be years before it is eligible again for requirement but that add a member “The Administrative Committee members must have competed at eligible for automatic qualification. automatic qualification. that has been a member of Division felt that so long as a conference the Division I level. It must maintain continuity of If it adds an institution that has I less than eight years or is not a maintained continuity of member- “The committee has spent well membership by having at least six been a Division I member for less member of Division 1. ship, it had met its basic criterion over a year examining the issue of of the same member institutions as than eight years, if loses its The basketball committee recom- for automatic qualification and automatic qualification,” Cedric W. members for those five years. It also automatic qualification until all mended that a conference lose its See Basketball, page 3 Surgeon to receive Teddv Award New consent package -I Dr. Paul A. Ebert, director of the American College of Surgeons, has been named the recipient of added for Convention the Association’s Theodore Roosevelt Award. (EXtor Is Note: This is thefirst in a The “Teddy” Award is the highest honor the chair of the special committee, ex- NCAA can confer on an individual and is presented series of six artrcles reviewing the plained. annually at the honors luncheon at the Association’s legislation that will he considered at “Consideration was given to mak- the X3rd unnuul NCAA Convention ing some of these changes editorially Convention. January X-12 in Sun Francisco. This in the revised wording, but the Dr. Ebert is recognized as a leading authority in article covers the 38 proposab in- committee was reluctant to do that children’s thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. He cluded in the consent packages. In because we felt the changes were in has been director of the American College of Surgeons the Succeeding jive issues oj’ The fact changes in the legislation and since 1986. NCAA News. the other topicalgroup- should be approved by the member- He is a 1954 graduate of Ohio State University. He ings of amendments will be presented was a starting pitcher on the baseball team and ship.” earned first-team all-America honors in 1954. He in zhe order in which they will appear The four proposals, al1 designed also was a standout m basketball, scoring more than in the Convention ugenda.) to simplify the legislation involved, 1,000 points in his career. He received the Big Ten See New, page 3 Conference medal of honor as a senior. Delegates to NCAA Conventions He graduated from Ohio State’s medical school in have grown accustomed to voting Official Notice 1958. He was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship and on constitution and bylaws consent served his residency at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. packages since that device first was will be mailed Ebert received the Johns Hopkins Mead-Johnson used at the 1977 Convention in Miami Beach, but they will face an Scholarship award in 1964 and was appointed chief 29 resident at Johns Hopkins in 1965. addition to that category at the ‘89 November As speciiied in the NCAA consti- Dr. Ebert was a professor of surgery at Duke gathering in San Francisco. tution and bylaws, the Official No- University and was named the Markle Scholar by the In addition to the customary con tice of the 1989 NCAA Convention university in 1967. He was chair of the department of stitution package and bylaws pack- will be mailed from the national See Surgeon, page 2 DK Paul A. Ebert ages, there will be a short package four proposals-of “deregulation/ office Tuesday, November 29. rules simplification” items proposed The Official Notice is sent to the by the Special Committee on De- chief executive officer, faculty ath- Proposed new Manual being mailed this we&k regulation and Rules Simplification. lctics representative, athletics direc- The long-awaited revision of the six-part series. The fourth install- ship has an adequate understanding Moreover, they are presented as tor and senior woman administrator NCAA Manual is being mailed to ment in that series appears below. of such regulations.” amendments not to the existing of athletics programs at each NCAA the membership this week. “The Manual has been revised Is the proposed new Manual NCAA Manual, but to the revised active member institution, as well as Developed over the past 3% years extensively in an effort to make larger than the current boolk’! Well, version that will be voted upon at to member conferences and affil- by NCAA President Wilford S. NCAA regulations more readily yes and no. the San Francisco Convention. iated members. Bailey and the Special Committee accessible and more easily under- It is “larger” because it features a The four “dereg” proposals were Included in the copy sent to the on Deregulation and Rules Simpli- stood by those responsible for their page size of 8% by I I inches, rather identified by the committee during member’s chief executive officer is fication, the new Manual will be in application,” NCAA Executive Di- than the half-size pagep5’/z by 8% its final review of the proposed new the form to be used in appointing the membership’s hands for more rector Richard D. Schultz said in a inches-in all previous editions. Manual. “We agreed that these delegates to the Convention. than six weeks before its adoption is memorandum accompanying the But it is smaller in terms of the changes are needed to bring the The publication sets forth all 147 voted upon at the 1989 NCAA mailing. length of the book-392 pages in- wording more in keeping with cur proposed amendments to NCAA Convention in San Francisco. “I believe that effective com- stead of the current 440. rent practices, to clarify intent or to legislation that were submitted in The NCAA News has been re- pliance with NCAA regulations can The book has been redesigned make comparable rules concordant,” accordance with the November I porting on the revision project in a be achieved only when the member- See Proposed, page 2 NCAA President Wilford S. Bailey, See Official. page 2 Manual’s playing-and-practice-seasons section more lucid Revising that portion of the what it otherwise would have been. Clayton W. Chapman of the East- NCAA Manual dealing with playing “The members of the special corn- ern College Athletic Conference, r:’L and practice seasons became a good- mittee believed that we had a re- recently named to succeed Robert news, bad-news item for the Special sponsibility to propose to the M. “Scatty” Whitelaw as ECAC Delegates to the NCAAi 1989 Committee on Deregulation and membership a (revised) Manual commissioner, is the special com- Convention in San Francisco are Rules Simplification. that met their needs,” explained mittee member whose major re- expected to take action on adopticut The good news? It appears likely Wilford S. Bailey, NCAA president sponsibility was the revamping of of a revised A4anuaL the most ma/or that anyone - regardless of his or and chair of the group that has been what has become Bylaw 17. He said revision oj’ the Association? rules her familiarity with the Association’s working on the revision project for this portion of the finished docu- and regukttiuns ever undertaken. rules and regulations -will be able more than three years. “It (adding ment reflects the philosophy used In this six-part series, The NCAA to pick up the new Manual and significant length to the section on throughout the committee’s work. News presents a detailed report on quickly grasp this information. playing and practice seasons) was a “Our approach to the entire Man the people and events that, in many The bad news? Turning what had very deliberate decision made reluc- ual was to make all the legislation as ways, have transformed the Associu- become a maze-like trail of legisla- tantly out of a conviction that this clear as possible,” he offered.